Hi, I've read on LPI Linux Certification (Ed O'Reilly) in a nutshell the following thing: "parted, unfortunately, has been known to corrupt partition tables and ruin filesystem." What do you think about it? Greets! -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -
Sergio Belkin wrote:> Hi, I've read on LPI Linux Certification (Ed O'Reilly) in a nutshell > the following thing: > > "parted, unfortunately, has been known to corrupt partition tables and > ruin filesystem." >Sounds like a question for the parted list, not here. Plenty of stuff in CentOS uses parted, and there is nothing you can do about it. And Just to remind everyone that no, this is still not a general conversation about stuff list. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
Until CentOS 4.7, parted would create DOS partitions > 2Tb. DOS partitions can not be > 2Tb. This could "...corrupt partition tables and ruin filesystem". The latest version from CentOS 4.7 fixes this (and other) bugs. John. Sergio Belkin wrote:> Hi, I've read on LPI Linux Certification (Ed O'Reilly) in a nutshell > the following thing: > > "parted, unfortunately, has been known to corrupt partition tables and > ruin filesystem." > > What do you think about it? > > Greets! >-- John Newbigin ITS Senior Analyst / Programmer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin